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.tipplteetioii tiled August E5,

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lle it lemmi that ,tier li. l-liiitttoriti., e .frite/,eu ei' the llniied "lll'eeihse-vliet. iii le enmity e Lxlkr have irirerited u verteilt new wird neofiti ,lmprm'etiieiit m lliiieigfiirlllaitrices., .et wliuh the 'telhrmng i tell. clean mit @met desrriilitieh.

. l het retererire te the emi e mieli is :we heed iii lifie eh.. ii'iritrieee 'fire the` 'e litre in the deeired dined with euch other, "ld :md :ire ettipluyed te elese mie Side: 'et' Smid hield elet im that when this elet 'tilleul with molten type rhetirt :t l eng; type-elli 1will he termed there fhieli type Slug will have mi` its print- ;it'e u ezuiiee replica elE the thru-@unters iii ii'izitiix line. A

.lt absolut ly necessary tliiit the nmtrieee 'ih :i matrix. line shell he neem'utely :iliiied with remeet te erich ether, ih order that the elviraA i eh the Slug; shall he properly' ziliiied, that is to my. s :tll appear te he restl it briefe line. f

'Thiel invention ritrm'tieh et. 'ri mettiti marl rlmniezilly i erder; :the iii-ngerlmtt mid with u slotted fiile n peti e eti-zi time it et this .inveiitien is; te provide ieee, which :ire adapted ter eeriieiht tw@ preteeted elimine' surfaces, ee that tl'iey' Ttill he subjected te the iiiitiitiiiiiti weer :te the iruttrieee rire Stored nel moved from platee te plaeefwherehy these elimine' euririieee Will be :ihle te ,ke/eeurntelji' "periferie ti tmictieiiti during; the useful lite' oft the ',rieee.- lt ie idee `cleya'rnhle that the rmtt-ri'eee et tlitlereii :tente :i-ii'id these l wing' t, ieraietere wliielr lier iii lit Shell he empathie et eeie'iieitit use' te limite e "metrit litre et mieli sert time; if; niet ifrmii euch litre, 'till et the 1re, v-:lietlitir they be large eti eiiittll. ,et/'peer te lee testine" en the emilie-trame r lflie dillierett Sized ehereetere eri the .f which tire heeel, tiri the eertiiiierrinl liiietype miieliitiee are tiet-te tir,- riiiieed il the tirati-ieee ne 'te britltgttheiit this result. eirriniiietaltiees., zie ter exemple, iii und rn'tuleeiie werk. where it is de este type chmwieters et different heights in the stime lineT :md te here all et auch elmr- ,metete when priz'ted zilipeer te be resting en seme heee lin tii'etlier Object e intention tht .ether ailiu'iug surface fr -erid et eeeh irmtriit, that ie to SzLtQ---it liesv that when zt engage, because 1t is the feet a5 Nevertheless there ere 'iiitiriereus ireetery fefirnlale te lmet-ee.

rtw. tllltlllttlltit they are :ieeei'nbled te fioriti :i matrix lime :uid :i type slug' ie eerst trein such luie, :dl the printing cuni-deter@4 en smid Slug, regardless et their height will he exaietly :dined :it their The inventien, illuetreted 'iii the :recent ,ij-f its; drawings Yih which lfigure l le a. eide elevation el? Athree renti-ieee whereei'i are characters et dillereut height, Seid n'iiitriees beine arranged reliitively se :is te shew the relation between their :dining surteeee arid thelmee'lines et their several ehureetere; Fie'. Z is: an edge' view" et 'the same uniti/ieee similarly urraiiged with respect te erich other.

' Referring to the parte by lettere it, it@ A2 represent theiiizitriees. 'llhe ehm'nete e en tl ese severitl matrices are er muy lie el? different heights-(iremos, :is for exnii'iple, the character eh matrix it. muy be tive peints high; thiiteii inutriit it may he eine peints high, and that on matrix it muy he twelve peints high'. lllae'h et these Characters L is depressed into the botto-m et :i cup e termed in elle vertical edge et the eereriil iiiiitrieee. One horizontal matrix iiliniiig; Surface a.' is depressed belew the top edge eleaeh matrix. that is to say, it lies between the upwardly projecting Spurs e3 :it euch sicle et it. Bm- 2 whieli is parallel d into the hettem with surface ufLie (lepre.

hetweetr the downwardly projecting fr.

liti thev Ordinar use et tlieee nmtrieee nthese :ilinirig esurta'ees at, e", are liet liable to be injured er Sutter wear :is the ilizitriees :tre stored iii the magazines tre-rel :trom place te place iti the line (meting miiehitie. ln the timgezieee, the betteln 'et er :ire mused t0- eue matrix rests ripeti the top et the eintritt belew it; but these aliumg surl'zieee do not et the upper matrices which rest -uipen the spurs ai et the matrices below them. ltvloreover, as the iiiiitriees travel through the machine, they usually reet upon the feet e5. "llliese two parallel ziliiingeurteces at, at are so placed mi all et the meti-lees adapted 'ter eonjoirit use that the@T ere it uniform clisttiiee apart.

Additionally, the cups a?, u. :md the chti-r tieters (i en the cliilereiitmitriees (whatever be the Size et saidlehmnetere are se placed in the 'vertical edges of said matrices, that the distances between the base line of the characters and either alning surface on any matrix are the same as those distances on any other matrix.. his arrangement is clearly shown i lgs l and 2, where c reicresents the plane t the lower alining surfaces at on 'theV different matrices; a'- 'the plane ci the upper al'ming surfaces a2 on said matrices; and e the piane of the hase line ot all the characters on vthe diierent matrices which, as stated, are or may be of diiierent sizes. f A

It is quite evident that ii' a matrixA line he madenp of a variety of matrices having the relative characteristics referred to, these matrices may have characters of various sizes, but nevertheless a slug cast from such a matrix line will have all Yof the characters on its printing edge-, Whatever be the height of such characters, exactly alined at their bases.

Having thus described inv invention, I claim:

l. A type matrix having' two parallel horizontal alining surfaces, one facing upward and one facing downward, and other horizontal surfaces which are adjacent to said alining surfaces,the said alining surfaces being depressed with respect to the said adjacent horizontal surfaces of said matrix. t

2. A type matrixl having its character depression in one vertical edge and 'having at its upper and lower ends respectively, two parallel horizontal aliningsurfaces which are depressed with respect to the adjacent top and bottom surfaces of said matrix.

A. type matrix having two horizontal parallel alining surfaces and having aldja- 50 cent thereto other surfaces which project Aoutward be ondc the planes of said valining surfaces, w ereby the aliningsurfaces are protected from irictional contact with the surfaces in a linotype machine, as the matrix 45 is moved about in said machine.

el. fa set of type matrices, each of which has two alining surfaces, one faced upward and one faced downward, which two alining surfaces are 4the saine distances apartes allV te iatrix that the distance 'hete/"een the laset line of the character and both :dining surfaces are the same as the correspoiil-.cling distances on every other matrixu 5. A set of type matrices, each of which has two parallel depressed alining surfaces, ec

one faced upward and one faced downward, which two aiming surfaces are the same chstances apart on-all matrices, each ci said 'matrices having also a character depression in one vertical edge, the characters seing 2 larger on some matrices than on others, and being so placed on each matrix that the dis tance between the hase line ci the character and both alining siricces the same as the corres/,oendingn di; matrix.

ln testimony whereof.F` hereunto aiix Inj signature in the ce' of two witnesses.

GUY LEE HMLFND llitnesses z aces on every other ff 

